Burj Al Arab and Burj Khaifa

Burj Al Arab

The Burj Al Arab Hotel is the tallest hotel in the world, and according to that position, it required a lot of work of a lot of professionals related to the construction. Is not only a ambition of the architect that is reflected on the building, it is also the perspective of what the clients wanted. They were not only thinking of an important Hotel, they wanted to establish the icon of Dubai. Architects and Engineers had to work together in order to make the building work. They had to agree in all the decisions that they were going to make, especially by talking about the structure. The architect Tom Wright was very specific with the structure the design should had have because it was the most important part of the building. Due to the magnitude of the project the engineers had to be very meticulous. The building is in an island 270 meters form the natural beach, so that, they had to create a strong base, so the building could be secure against waves and earthquakes The contractors usually said the architects were crazy about the design. For example, the part of the structure of the front, the engineer did not make it the way the architects wanted, so that, Tom Wright decided to design and explain the way the structure should have worked and especially, how should have seem. The engineers had to see more that what their eyes could see, and believed that they could bring the complete body of the big structure to the construction.

Burj Khalida

UNIVERSITY P12234047 04. ARCHITECTURE The way the tower is designed in such a way that triple- loaded footprint, an abstraction of Hymenocallis flower. The tower is arranged around a central core the modular Y shaped with wings in each side makes the tower more stable which consists of 26 such floor plates which reduces the floor cross section towards the top. The reason which is built in such a manner that to increase the view of the Arabian Gulf and the bottom of the tower is in the shape of the onion domes which indicates the Islamic architecture. Over 45,000 square meter cube of concrete which composes more carbon foot print for their manufacture more over 330,000 the steel which is used is also contribute the carbon foot print. In the concrete core wall construction the pump used which is the highest pumping ever done in history because heavy machinery pumps are used so that more energy is burned so that it also contributed carbon the excavation work started in 2004 and finished in 2010 which took 22 million man power hours so we need to consider the transportation which contributes carbon emission .

Contrast of two unique buildings Buildings that were built starting in the 90'swere mostly designed to be unique as consisting of its own function or representing purpose. The two unique buildings that l am contrasting of are currently highest building in the world, Burj Khalifa that is located in Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Bhd of Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Beijing Olympic stadium which is located in Chao Yang of Beijing in China where Malaysia well known badminton player Lee Chong Wei won the first runner up medal. There are several contrasts to list out between these two unique building which are the design of the buildings, material used to build both buildings and lastly the purpose of these two buildings Firstly, the design of Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Burj Khalifa is designed by three designers named Skidmore, Owings and Merril. The design of Burj Khalifa is derived from patterning systems that embodied in lslamic architecture and it is an inspired of the flower named Hymenocallis by the design architect of the building Adrian Smith. The building is composed of three elements amanged surrounding acentral core and it is setup as an upward spiraling pattern until the top of the building, the central core emerges and is sculpted to form a finishing spire. At the same time, it is designed to be the tallest building after it is fully constructed in year 2010. For the Beijing Olympic stadium, it is designed by few architect and designer named Ai Wei Wei, Li Xing Gang, Pierre de Meuron and Jacques Herzog. Beijing Olympic stadium is numerously different